skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't hedgefunds "overlong" the housing market? They were borrowing on margin using housing debt as collateral, but the collateral turned out to be junk, so they got margin called when that collateral tanked (the CDOs), and banks with insufficient liquidity to cover the losses either collapsed or got bailed out.

Essentially the housing market bubble was people going long using worthless collateral.
High Tech Genesis Inc. Is Hiring a Distributed Storage Engineer
What puzzles me is why everyone talks about clocks..!

Clock synchronisation is a nice side effect, but what amazes me is how it is possible to keep this thing swinging somewhat synchronously year after year, and how huge chunks of it doesn't crash and burn when events like this happens.

(I have worked as a consultant for a power supplier, I was more puzzled afterwards : )
Why not btc?
Whenever I see may in the title of a post I assume conjecture.
Or maybe being cynical and disaffected is just a part of being young? Seems pretty common!
Investing is not luck. It's luck if you make just one or two trades.

In the long run, statistical iterations (that you have modeled/researched correctly) will give you positive returns with a very high confidence.

Situations like in this post are obviously not that. I have a trading strategy that I execute over hundreds of trades per year based upon financial modeling and financial statement analysis. There's a little luck involved, but over many trades, the luck aspect cancels itself out.

It's like rolling the dice. If you bet on getting a certain number, and roll once, it's luck. If you bet on averaging a certain number and roll 1000 times, there's virtually no luck at all.
> UPDATE: I just checked the GA website, and all it gives me is voter IDs and whom they voted for. No way I can verify vote fraud did not occur from that information. No addresses or names.

I would suggest that if you weren’t able to find this information using google, you should think about what that means for your research skills and the skills/knowledge of those who create and propagate the voter fraud lies. Some humility might be in order as to why experts don’t think there was fraud, but others who don’t understand how elections work do....

https://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/voter_history_files

“ You will need a voter file in order to associate a voter with his or her voter history. The voter and history files both contain the voter registration number and can be linked on this field.

For more information on voter lists, please send an email to AJackson@sos.ga.gov with the subject “Voter List Files.””

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/verify/verify-can-your-...

“ So is it true your neighbors or friends can find out if you voted? 11Alive verified with the Secretary of State’s website that under Georgia law, “voter registration lists are available to the public and contain the following information: voter name, residential address, mailing address if different, race, gender, registration date, and last voting date.”
The information is available by order for a fee on the Secretary of State’s Office website, though is not to be used for commercial purposes.”
Is this the "MBA school of divesting so they can become a service company that sell brand and outsources everything"?
It's not "wrong". It's a choice.

You can provide some code and let the users do whatever is needed to get it to compile on their system.

Or you can try to automate the process with the best of intentions and create a monster.

In any case, the reason why autotools exists in the first place is that people were less than thrilled with the work required to make things work by hand.
> I have a microwave and oven from the same brand, and their digital clocks diverge about 2minutes in 24h.

That's much, much worse than a cheap digital watch from 20 years ago.
As someone who moved away from Twitter, the last thing I need in my life is another Twitter-owned property. The politics of the last month aside, Twitter is a foul, trite, snide place where the worst of us are trumpeted to the loudest voice and widest audience. The negativity and incentive to waste hours and focus are pervasive in every community I've participated in. Of course, YMMV. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to curate and filter away those things that I abhor about Twitter. A few weeks removed and my mental state feels all the better for it. Color me cynical, but I'll pass on another attempt for Twitter to monetize my attention.
Except of course CentOS stream.
I worked for a startup and we had a programming intern in my shop who was a new mom who wanted to learn programming. She was also an ex model from Denmark or Belgium or somewhere. She was really pretty, prettier than the actors on Halt and Catch Fire, and got a ton of attention from the rest of the programmers who were almost all typical programmers. [0]

She was doing well as a programmer when the company folded.

Other than this one programmer, I’ve never seen any programmers or product managers or engineers as attractive as in this show.

[0] “In a book called Computer Power and Human Reason, a professor of computer science at MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum writes of a malady he calls “the compulsion to program.” He describes the afflicted as “bright young men of disheveled appearance, often with sunken, glowing eyes,” who play out “megalomaniacal fantasies of omnipotence” at computer consoles; they sit at their machines, he writes, “their arms tensed and waiting to fire their fingers, already poised to strike, at the buttons and keys on which their attention seems to be as riveted as a gambler’s on the rolling dice.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine -
Open source, offline Google location history carbon emissions calculator
no way to prevent just adding a 'not' while still allowing sensible editing.
The calculation is all done client side...
https://github.com/danksky/carbon-foot-prince
Oh, I didn't realize that the free version was that limited. I guess I need another name to use as the default open source distributed database.
I'm on the fence about this, I don't think Bram or other Vim devs are malicious towards Neovim. But the repeated implementation of equivalent features with incompatible APIs (terminals, async, and now faster scripting) doesn't look good.
Your notebook with replaceable battery is fatter and heavier than the notebook without the replacable battery, and uses more resources, too (additional shell for the battery, cables, connectors...). Also more expensive to built, as it is more complicated (again, connectors, casing... that need to be assembled). Same for your phone.

I have nothing against people buying such things, if that property is important to them. Just don't force it on everybody.
> For how long will we allow non elected superentities control our lives?

What does that even mean? Who is it who's allowing or not allowing a media company to control people's lives?
Precisely, /u/DeepFuckingValue which started this thing on WSB literally has only $15M in GME on a $5B cap. In the grand scheme of thing that's not significant.
I can't tell if this is in jest... if you're actually interested, the role of HFT in markets is hotly debated. The HFT side argues that they improve markets by providing liquidity - and that's true to an extant, spreads have narrowed drastically over time. And yes, there is the opposite side arguing they are purely "parasites", and exchanges like LTSE have been built specifically to counter HFT (Flash Boys, etc.)

Perhaps I don't like the word "criminals" being thrown around so loosely.
The steam didn't run out. They changed the rules. Bid/Ask spread on GME options is now $20 until 3/19.
My rule of thumb is the less actionable a piece of advice is the more “likes” it will get. It’s not about getting better but feeling better. VC Twitter is full of this crap.
A Container Approach to Carving Up GPU Resources
My 2 cents:

I've read some books on evolution, many about philosophy and religion, and I find it all fascinating, but I didn't completely escape that feeling that it's not enough...

But, instead of saying "these explanations aren't satisfying, there must be a god behind these misteries", my position is "these beautiful explanations aren't completely satisfying, I'm left with some uncomfortable questions, and that's just part of being a human being".

I've been a devout catholic, I've been a kinda-skeptical non-denominational christian, I've been a staunch atheist and a buddhist-leaning agnostic... and I've never felt that I could find perfect answers. Some uncomfortable questioning will always be there, and it's better to try to make your peace with it before trying to solve it.

Trying to solve it is also fine, but not the complete answer.
Some of my favorite comments on HN are when old school programmers like you share old school stories from the trenches. Love it.
This isn’t untrue but it’s also an absolutist statement. There is a big difference between Canonical and Oracle, between Zappos (before Amazon bought them) and Walmart, between Starbucks and McDonalds. Your experience working for these will be vastly different. Your experience dealing with them will be also different. And some will behave closer to “good citizens” than others.
Hi - Pia from Open Collective here. Thanks for the ping on this. We deployed a quick fix to reduce the width and we'll look at it with more time.
Firefox 85
> Starting today, we’re making Revue’s Pro features free for all accounts and lowering the paid newsletter fee to 5%

...and there goes Substack's entire business.

Overall, this is great for writers however. The missing component to Substack was the discovery/social mechanism. From a strategic perspective, it's easier to bolt on newsletter sending than it is to build a new social network.

So this was always a huge risk for Substack as a platform. But hey, there's also an alternate universe where Twitter stays dumb and lazy and never crushes Substack. So I see why investors took the risk.

But I see no path forward for Substack if Twitter manages to not completely botch this.
Tell us more about that :)
Just let the machine make you happy.
I'm not sure this issue matters. Open many devices today, and you've damaged their case and compromised any environment-proofing they may have had. And who has the pots of sealant and gasket treatments necessary to restore that?

So sure, go ahead and repair your pool pump controller yourself. But be prepared to have it get moisture in the case, have all the contacts turn black and become a wad of worthless corrosion.
I know. It's worse than the pendulum clock I have to crank at my grandma's once a week! Progress!
Hi Francisco - Pia from Open Collective here. Thanks for the ping on this. We deployed a quick fix to reduce the width and we'll look at it with more time.
Writefreely is awesome, and their devs were highly available in my experience with them. Discovered when Medium went the way of paywalls, I've donated several times to help keep the project alive.
And typically a single DO droplet would suffice for a toy project or POC, for which Ansible is probably the more expedient option. But maybe they're not in a rush, and learning K8s is just another feather in their cap .
> the way the rewards are allocated for playing... don’t matter too much.

Of course they matter. If they didn't matter, then participants wouldn't participate. ...and if they didn't participate then the market would have less liquidity. ...and higher liquidity is ALWAYS a good thing.

The health of a market can be characterized by the persistence of liquidity.
Which young people don't have enough assets to take advantage of because most of their money goes to rent/loans. Then the eventual crash comes and they lose almost everything again.

Why not take a gamble?
We Already Experienced an Era of Fake News 100 Years Ago – and Solved It
I'm baffled by the number of companies that should not have any need for third-party cookies and still go full-on dark pattern. In particular online shops: I'm already on their site, why would they loudly advertise "we're shady and want to trick you into selecting all cookies"? I've cancelled more than one purchase because I didn't want to bother with this.
> How exactly is the possibility of vote dumping and vote
flipping eliminated?

You cannot simply add ballots to the election as the totals would then be incorrect. (There would be more votes than people recorded as voting)

What is “Vote Dumping”? Do you mean inserting fraudulent paper ballots into the stored ballots to be counted?

The election was recorded on physical paper ballots. Are you alleging a vast conspiracy of bipartisan election workers and Republican Secretary of State monitors to replace the legitimate physical ballots with fake ones?

All ballots were hand counted and the initial Dominion machine count was confirmed accurate, so the allegation would be a conspiracy where Dominion scanners inaccurately counted the original paper ballots, then the paper ballots were secretly replaced with fakes to match the inaccurate Dominion counts? And this would have had to been done state-wide without a single whistleblower. It’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory if you try to write it out.
If you have a collapse, I don't think permits on weapons are going to be a large concern. And after the collapse, they are one of the more simple to craft, and easy to operate weapons.

MadMax should be your go to guide right? (just kidding)

Large targets, can be whittled away over time, you basically become under siege, your attackers can leave anytime in small groups to gather supplies, you would be stuck at your parameter.

Think castles, after a while, they all fall through starvation, contamination, sabotage, etc..
Suppose if I said "Aliens exist" repeatedly by showing little evidence like showing a small journal article or a recently released paper linked in the description / tweet for months. Do I also get banned?
You can literally see in the Quad trailer of a PoC beating a woman.
You can make public housing rent-free for formerly homeless and then decrease the social welfare amount.
Adding nested mutations to the GraphQL API for WP
What is the idea here? Open a channel with each website that I visit. Lockup the BTC that I will ever send them but only send it to them slowly each time I visit it.
WebRTC 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation
What you're describing is called resumé driven development. It happens every few years when people want to cash in on trends/buzzwords that people believe will be disruptive to all industries but are just tools to have in the toolbox for most. New tools pop up all the time that fit this mould. Over the past ten years I can think of Hadoop (Big data), MongoDB (NoSQL), Kubernetes, "Serverless" computing, and TensorFlow. While all these tools have legitimate use cases, they are often overused due to marketing or industry hype.

Adding artificial intelligence to your recipe application is unlikely to make any sense, but people do it because they want to have AI software engineer on their resumé.
They already have it,https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/
> Acquire a large standing army,

Why not get the coronavirus and run it through easy to get mammals like abandoned cats until it's really dangerous. Or buy a plot near a bat cave and collect different viruses from local bats.

Why are bio-weapons not nuclear equivalent? Basically Raven from Snow Crash but with a wider game theory model.
it's probably just a typo, in context this reads like `content` not `contempt`.
Nuclear power: The safer and cheaper alternative to fossil fuels
Also Valley of the Boom [0] by National Geographic focusing on Netscape, Pixelon, and a couple others.

And General Magic [1] - a documentary about the startup General Magic with interviews with early employees who went on to Apple, Google, etc

And Silicon Cowboys [2] - documentary about Compaq in the early days, pretty much the real story version of Season 1

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Boom

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6849786/

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4938484/
What I’ve Learned Going from Startups to a Fortune 500 Company
> But still wonder how companies operated, how did anything get done?

At the small (13 people) software house I joined in 1993, our information management was physical filing cabinets. Key project plans were printed and stored. A visit from the ISO auditor always involved diving into the filing cabinets. Source code wasn't printed (phew!) but the project records would explain where on the servers the software could be found.

Repo-based software configuration management as we would recognise it today was virtually non-existent. Projects tracked releases to customers using configuration notes that (in theory) allowed you to identify the resources required and how to recreate / build the delivered system. We had nothing like CI/CD - releases were few and intermittent.

We were disciplined and the directors were quality focussed, so the system actually worked reasonably well. The company had evolved some very good checklists for projects that were used at start-up to build the information framework for a project of a given type and size (we had three or four different generic types of project).

When I left ten years later the basic processes were still broadly identical, although there was less emphasis on the physical filing.

[Edit]

> Similar how did people learn things

For software, from product manuals and usenet. For domain issues, from experts and sometimes books. E.g. when we built in ~1995 a system to support analysis of satellite constellations, the team concerned actually bought and read books on orbital mechanics and spherical geometry. I was a space nerd and still remembering being pleased at explaining to the programmers that the modelled satellites were changing speed as they orbited because the programmers had correctly implemented Kepler's laws.
EC2's u-24tb1.metal is 224/448 cores/hyperthreads and 24TB RAM ;)

https://aws.amazon.com/sap/instance-types/
Clearly and unsurprisingly this is to compete with Substack. Great move.

Now, regarding character limits, beyond linking to a personal website or having a newsletter, I have seen avid content creators posting images containing small essays directly on Twitter to allow a deeper in-app reading experience.

Maybe this should be a next, and less trivial, problem for Twitter to work on.
There's membership feature on gumroad as well: https://gumroad.com/gumroad/p/introducing-gumroad-membership...
> For how long will we allow non elected superentities control our lives?

...you say, freely commenting on a site, that is freely discussing another site that is openly reporting on the fact that Netflix are doing this.

The mere fact that you know that this documentary exists and that Netflix is passing on it due to geopolitical influence I think is proof that Netflix is not controlling our lives?
Clearly a violation too, since the experience is now worse when not giving consent. That its clearly deliberate doesn't help either.
I am a bit cynical about that Spyware-aaS companies like FB would stop spying just becouse you paid them. I mean I bought a Samsung TV for 1000USD and still it tries to show adds and spy. The temptation to increase margins is high no matter what.

I am not that up to date with Twitter. Are they in the same class as FB and Google?
This is really great acquisition. Maybe this is the path towards building the paid Twitter service?
Twitter is in an interesting position as a business. They can buy new platforms all they like but I, and many others, will never consider them because they have already poisoned the well when it comes to censorship. I would never consider them a useful platform for publishing, whether long-form or short. They're destined to be a home for partisans that agree with their orthodoxy and perhaps people with nothing vaguely controversial to say.

I fear the internet will bifurcate due to problems like this.
Which kind of proves the point how hard it is to make any money out of FOSS when software is the product.
Shell has stated their plans to become the world's biggest supplier of electricity; running this as agoing concern seems in line with their new strategy.
Why is this interesting? It's some guy complaining he doesn't have many followers / his tweets aren't engaging enough.

I'd be genuinely curious to hear from anyone who upvoted this.
It also looks like reboots between bootstrap stages.
Ask HN: How to learn about safety systems and closed loop systems?
Recently, we've had a couple of failures at work that were caused by chain reactions of unmonitored things. We do our best to try and monitor everything, but really, I would like us to engineer for failure modes.

After reading the excellent writeup on partitioning of the European Power Grid, and more recently about automotive CAN networks, I'd like to learn about writing software for safety systems.

Where is a good source of the basics? Thank you!
I take a look at write.as (the hosted version), and find one of the first posts in the community section: https://write.as/tmo/5-30-am-coffee-to-kick-things-off

This post has just over 1800 characters (copy/pasted everything visible into Notepad++), no images whatsoever, and it takes 776ms to load and transfers 238 kilobytes.

Why are minimalist seeming web sited often so obese (https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm)?
There are actually a lot of less commonly known greens that are in exotic taxa with few or no other eaten relatives. Strawberry spinach, for example
It depends a lot on what you’re doing. In my last role, keeping the Postgres database in memory was absolutely not an option, and we ran into major issues related to physical I/O.
Am considering taking Tesla private at $9420. Funding secured.

Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.

Am considering taking Tesla private at $42. Funding secured.
I can recommend surgical tape over the mouth. This forces nose breathing. For some reason it also means you don't grind teeth.

I highly recommend trying this, you sleep much better. Apart from surgical tape there is bespoke nose breathing tape, but this is more expensive.
If you ignore volume, sure
Tools to Track and Manage Technical Debt
Still not acceptable to make a worse experience when the consent is rejected.

They'd need to queue those things and process them async later, or find a solution that doesn't need those requests at all.
Show HN: Harnessing the power of AI to identify probable faults in used cars